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> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Also, the Brave browser is a great FOSS option. It's a chromium fork that only adds privacy/adblocking features and doesn't require google services.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Links which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
Links which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/
1) Long-press the link, and choose "Open in App". (This won't work if the destination is hidden behind a redirect, as in Google search results. Use DuckDuckGo, instead.)
2) Navigate to the address, and press the Android icon in the navigation bar.
> Firefox on Android still isn't a great experience News to me! I've been using Firefox on Android for six years now, and I'm very happy.
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I try Firefox on Android about every six months and it is consistently worse than its competitors. Its address bar behaviour is erratic, websites render desktop versions or "basic" versions where I would get a more functional version on chrome, it feels heavy and scrolling still sucks. This from someone who has had Firefox as my default browser on my computer since I unzipped Phoenix off a CD which came bundled with…
> websites render desktop versions or "basic" versions where I would get a more functional version on chrome Sounds like user-agent sniffing, considered pretty bad practice. I use Firefox Android daily and it's consistently more useful than Chrome; * Firefox Sync lets me send tabs between all my devices * I can run a scriptblocker, which has saved me from atleast two Script Injection attacks * I can set DDG as search…
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Links which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/
On my phone (I use Lineage), I have control of what app opens what link.
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May I ask which phone do you have? I used Firefox as my primary browser for at least all of 2016 on a Samsung Galaxy S2 (a 2011 phone) and on a Sony Xperia Compact since fall 2016. No problems with performance. Opera has a much better text reflow on zoom but that's all. Chrome, no difference, but I never used Chrome much so I might be missing something.
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I was using it on a phone with 1GB of ram before (a moto G3) and it was definitely another story, but chrome was as bad, so I was still using Firefox.
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Links which can be handled by apps (e.g. YouTube or Reddit) won't open in the app but in Firefox instead. This is a show-stopper for me :/
In the current version of Firefox for Android (59), you have 2 options to open a link in an external app: 1) Long-press the link, and choose "Open in App". (This won't work if the destination is hidden behind a redirect, as in Google search results. Use DuckDuckGo, instead.) 2) Navigate to the address, and press the Android icon in the navigation bar.
A much better rule imo, which I've had success with, is "no software from the Big Five" rather than FOSS-only. This has a bigger impact on actual privacy concerns and gives you more leeway when it comes to media apps, etc.
Sorry, which are the Big Five? Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon... Apple?